ILLUSTRATIONS

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The Cube Altar	[14]
The Everburning Lamp	[16]
The Masonic Censor	[18]
The Grave Digger’s Spade	[20]
The Candle	[22]
The Lotus	[28]
The Rod That Budded	[30]
The Philosopher’s Stone	[34]
The Five Pointed Star	[38]
The Marriage of the Sun and Moon	[40]
The Pillars of the Temple	[42]
The Serpent	[44]
The Masonic Apron	[46]
The Scepters of Egypt	[48]
The Sacred Scarab	[50]
The Priest before the Ark of the Covenant	[54]
The Rod that Budded, the Pot of Manna, and the Tablets of the Law	[58]
The Holy Grail	[62]
The Stone and the Sword	[64]
The Rosicrucian Rose	[66]
The Sacred Spear	[68]
Cross Section of the Great Pyramid of Gizah	[74]
The Pyramid	[76]
The Sphinx	[78]
The Key and the Cross	[82]
The White Grail	[86]
The Black Grail	[87]

The Initiates of the Flame

INTRODUCTION

Few realize that even at the present stage of civilization in this world, there are souls who, like the priests of the ancient temples, walk the earth and watch and guard the sacred fires that burn upon the altar of humanity. Purified ones they are, who have renounced the life of this sphere in order to guard and protect the Flame, that spiritual principle in man, now hidden beneath the ruins of his fallen temple.